This week’s gallery picks merge realities and examine relationships.

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1. Mushrooms, manikins and other low-life characters also meet high culture as GAMA has a strong attachment to a broad cross-section of Western Old Master and Nineteenth century painting at Chambers Fine Art
2. Thomas Zipp’s body of work examines the relationship between actor and observer by transforming the gallery into an open field of experimentation.  Zipp addresses control in relation to the physical, sexual and psychological components of the human mind at Alison Jacques Gallery
3. Alexis Anne Mackenzie’s new show Multiverse explores how minor fluctuations in circumstance, or a slight rearrangement of the same elements, can create a wholly different entity at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
4. Colin Chillag’s hyperrealism dissolves into sketches, under-paintings and notes-to-self. Meditative in effect, these passages show the tracks left by Chillag’s brain, drawing connections between things and things-to-do, wandering through varied creative spaces at 101/EXHIBIT
5. Joram Roukes and Charles Wilkin are thematically united by the often dark nature of their surreal subjects and their intuitive juxtapositions of photographic imagery and abstracted forms. Ultimately, both artists’ subjects reside within a dream-like surrealistic place, alluding to themes concerning the nature of interpretation and the ways in which images embody cultural memory at Masters Projects
6. Answering Marcel Duchamp’s question: “Can one make works of art which are not ‘of art’?”, the exhibition “Le Bord des Mondes” [At the Edge of the Worlds] explores the many fields of artistic creation and welcomes creative people from outside of the art world whose work would seem to belong to it through its depth, its beauty and its singularity at Palais de Tokyo